This year Grymkytel Bishop of Sussex died, and Heca the King’s Priest succeeded him.--And this year Ælfwine Bishop of Winchester died on the 4th of the calends of September, and Bishop Stigand was translated from the north to that see. And the same year Earl Swegn went out to Bruges in the land of Baldwin, and he abode there all the winter, and departed thence in the summer. 1046. This year Æthelstan Abbot of Abingdon died, and Spearhafoc, a monk of St. Edmund’s Bury, succeeded him. And this year Bishop Siward died, and Archbishop Eadsige resumed the whole diocese. And the same year Lothen and Yrling came to Sandwich with 25 ships, and they plundered, and collected spoils innumerable, seizing men, gold and silver, so that no man knew what the whole amount was. And they sailed round about Thanet, and would have done the same there, but the inhabitants made a stout resistance, and kept them from landing and from entering the river, and wholly put them to flight; and then they came upon Essex, and there they plundered, and carried off men and whatever they could find; and thence they bent their course eastward to the land of Baldwin, and they sold their booty there, and then they returned to the east whence they came. “Battle of Val des Dunes.”[BD] In this year (1046) the great synod was held at St. Remy, at which the Pope Leo was present, with the Archbishop of Burgundy, the Archbishop of Besançon, the Archbishop of Treves, and the Archbishop of Rheims, and many other wise men besides, both clergy and laity: and King Edward sent Bishop Dudoc thither with Wulfric Abbot of St. Augustine’s, and the Abbot Ælfwine, to the end that they might report to him what was there determined upon with regard to the Christian religion.